Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] and [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 400-member Volkskammer approved this resolution with only six deputies opposing and 18 abstentions , while the Bundestag voted 487 to 15 ( opponents including the CDU deputy who was president of the " association of expellees " ) . |
| 2 | There were 18 pitches to go and six hours of daylight left . |
| 3 | It has faded from the lips of those in the east , and the dying man on the right has his teeth bared and one eye half closed ; a kind of realism found in some late archaic and early classical vase-painting and sometimes in sculpture too . |
| 4 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 5 | She was subsequently alone with him for much of a two-hour period when his condition deteriorated and one consultant thought he was going to die , the court heard . |
| 6 | The services are very simple with the priest celebrating and two acolytes serving . |
| 7 | So jewellers can not get their new stock hallmarked and 800,000 articles are now waiting to be examined before they can be put on sale . |
| 8 | So many men volunteered to take redundancy at Broughton that the average age of staff in the department plummeted and five vacancies arose . |
| 9 | The Turkish Human Rights Association claimed that in 1990 censorship of the press had been more severe than in any year since 1980 ; seven publications had their offices raided and 11 journalists and writers were arrested [ see also below ] . |
| 10 | A POLICE motorcyclist died and two others were injured yesterday when four machines on a training run collided on a busy main road . |
| 11 | The charges against the applicant , in what became Case No. 5424 of 1985 , comprised nine counts of conspiracy to defraud and 14 counts of bribing officials of B.M.F.L. These charges were first laid in December 1985 . |
| 12 | Aircraft destroyed and three crew killed but only two of the 14 journalists on board were badly hurt . |
| 13 | Paddy quickly took command , but with most of their gear missing and two men so badly injured that they had to be left behind , there was nothing for it but to try to make the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 14 | Topaz nodded and two days later set out with Sister Cecilia and Sister Anne , who were to be her escort . |
| 15 | A number of adults and children , members of a breakaway Seventh-day Adventist cult , have left the compound since the siege began and 95 people still remain , many of them Britons and Australians . |
| 16 | British losses in the engagement totalled 290 killed and 825 wounded , including three captains killed and three admirals wounded . |
| 17 | Indy Cars are Formula One-type cars with engine capacities of up to 3430 cc turbocharged and 5878 cc non-turbocharged . |
| 18 | On Creag a'Bhancair , Rab spent four hours cleaning and 40 seconds climbing ( it was starting to rain ) a line left of the start to Carnivore ; Vaguely Vegan , E2 5b was the score . |
| 19 | ESP 's business flourished and two years later the Company established a wholly-owned subsidiary , Submersible Oil Services Inc . |
| 20 | The twenty-one defendants were accused of enormous wrongdoing before and during World War II in an indictment which took two days to read and 218 days to try before a tribunal composed of two judges from each of the four victorious countries . |
| 21 | Mr. Harden and two clergymen came into the beck to see me — they preached and read prayers on the Sunday ’ . |
| 22 | This morning she gives priority to the fact that it is the first day of the winter term , and that she has a lecture to deliver and two tutorials to conduct . |
| 23 | That made it 68 for 4 as the rain returned and 14 minutes nett went missing around the tea interval . |
| 24 | On 6th August , when Mrs Roche was alone in the house , Constable Laurie entered , followed by Sergt. Borrows and three Constables . |
| 25 | In 1814 , Shelley met and four months later eloped to France with Godwin 's daughter Mary . |
| 26 | One light is fixed to the left side a ¼ mile before the point where the falling gradient changes to level and two lights , one above the other , 40 yards before reaching the level . |
| 27 | ONE PERSON died and four others were fighting for their lives last night after a school canoeing trip went disastrously wrong . |
| 28 | AT LEAST one person died and three others were fighting for their lives after a school canoeing trip went disastrously wrong yesterday . |
| 29 | Penaud dived on the ball to score and two minutes later he squeezed through a struggling defence for a second try with third-phase ball . |
| 30 | The rough passage from Scrabster was a small price to pay and three hours after leaving home , we could be fishing , or stalking the wild cliffs . |